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Dr Fiona Muirhead

Senior Lecturer

Physical Activity and Health

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Personal statement

Dr Fiona Muirhead is a Senior Lecturer, Principal and Co- Investigator on multiple interdisciplinary research projects spanning disability health, digital wellbeing, and inclusive heritage. She is co-applicant on the STRIDE initiative, submitted to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2025, which explores how Scottish libraries can foster community support, trusted information, inclusive spaces, heritage discovery, and wellbeing.

She is also leading a funded project on 24-hour movement behaviours in youth with Learning Disabilities, which is the first UK-based study to examine adherence to integrated physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep guidelines in this population. This work contributes vital data to an under-researched area.

Fiona also supervises PhD projects in the areas of disability health, digital wellbeing andÌýchronic pain and PA and health in vulnerable populations.

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2019
Recipient
30/9/2015

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Publications

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Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia & Falls Vol 11, pp. 41-53 (2026)
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Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia & Falls Vol 10, pp. 279-294 (2025)
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The Breast Journal Vol 2025 (2025)
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Journal of Medical Internet Research Vol 27 (2025)
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The UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (2024)

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Projects

Innocenti, Perla (Principal Investigator) Muirhead, Fiona (Co-investigator)
03-Jan-2025 - 02-Jan-2027
Kirk, Alison (Co-investigator) Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Bardid, Farid (Co-investigator) Crawford, Megan (Co-investigator) Donnachie, Craig (Co-investigator) Reilly, John (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2026
Muirhead, Fiona (Co-investigator) Kodal, Arne (Principal Investigator) Elgen, Irene Bircow (Co-investigator) Bjørgaas, Hanne-Marit (Co-investigator) Reinhardt, Georg (Co-investigator) Kristiansen, Hege (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2025
Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2019
Muirhead, Fiona (Principal Investigator)
Project HATCH – Staying Healthy AfTer Childbirth A cross-national study to support smoking abstinence and inter-related cancer-prevention behaviours among postpartum women
01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2018

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Dr Fiona Muirhead
Senior Lecturer
Physical Activity and Health

Email: fiona.muirhead@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4082